Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, William S. Burroughs). Rogue heart. Read our feature on Willner and Reed: The post Happy Birthday Hal Willner (“Saturday Night Live,” Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Wil... more info

Magnet Magazine — 25 years ago today, Lou Reed released Ecstasy. Big goals, big ambitious goals. Read album co-producer Hal Willner in MAGNET on Lou: The post Lou Reed Released “Ecstasy” 25 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — 50 years ago today, Lou Reed released Lou Reed Live. Just like an alley cat. Read our review of the essential The RCA & Arista Albums Collection: The post Lou Reed Released “Lou Reed Live” 50 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Lou Reed (Velvet Underground). It can’t hold you down anymore. Read Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Baseball Project) in MAGNET on Lou: The post Happy Birthday Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info

Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Robert Quine (Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Lloyd Cole, John Zorn, Matthew Sweet). To paraphrase fellow birthday boy Bo Diddley, “Had guitar, did travel.” Read Sweet in MAGNET on how Quine taught him to love the Byrds: The post Happy Bir... more info

Stereogum — We certainly weren’t the only people who thought Brat was the Best Album Of 2024. On Saturday, Charli XCX was crowned Hitmaker Of The Year during Variety’s eighth annual Hitmakers brunch in Los Angeles. While accepting the award (following an ... more info

Magnet Magazine — 50 years ago today, Lou Reed released Sally Can’t Dance and the Velvet Underground released 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. Take off your pants—don’t you know this is a party? Read our reviews of the essential The RCA & Arista Albums Collect... more info

Stereogum — In July, Vamberator released their debut song “Sleep The Giant Of Sleeps” and announced their first album Age Of Loneliness. The band is made up of Jemaur Tayle of Shelleyan Orphan and the Cure’s former drummer Boris Williams, and today they... more info

Stereogum — Herbie Flowers, the prolific English bassist known for creating the famous riff in Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side,” has died, the BBC reports. He was 86. more info

Stereogum — In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, a... more info